Final deployment for Enterprise (CVN-65)
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thebard
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I see what you did there. We're in some real pretty s#*t now, man!
bbvet
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Tyrosalt,
Thanks for the link to the EIS website - just out of interest to see what develops, I've requested to be added to their email list. At least, I think I have (not exactly straight fwd.). If these agencies are anything like Congress, nothing will get done for years...
Thanks for the link to the EIS website - just out of interest to see what develops, I've requested to be added to their email list. At least, I think I have (not exactly straight fwd.). If these agencies are anything like Congress, nothing will get done for years...
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A bit more on parts donations.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fir...one-of-the-anchors-on-the-former-enterprise-4
https://www.businessinsider.com/fir...one-of-the-anchors-on-the-former-enterprise-4
The draft EIS/OEIS has finally been released - a substantial read at 586 pages. There is also a 12 page summary. Virtual public meetings to discuss the proposals will be held in September.
The full draft and the summary can be downloaded from:
https://www.carrierdisposaleis.com
The preferred option is (unsurpisingly) commercial recycling at one of three locations - Hampton Roads, Mobile or Brownsville - with the dismantled reactors also taken to a commercial contractor's site rather than the DOE Hanford facility which takes the reactors from PSNS.
Newport News Shipbuilding has a contract to store the carrier until September 2024. After that it is planned to be towed to its final destination.
The report argues that recyling at the naval shipyard would require investment in barges, lifitng gear and the unloading facilities at the Port of Benton if dual reactor compartment packages were shipped from Puget Sound. This was the shipyard's preferred option apparently because there is only a single bulkhead between the pairs of reactor compartments.
While that is correct it ignores the fact that most of the same investment will be required for the recycled reactors from the Long Beach and future decomissioned Ohio class SSGN/SSBNs because they are too heavy as well for the present equipment.
No mention either of the Nimitz class.
The full draft and the summary can be downloaded from:
https://www.carrierdisposaleis.com
The preferred option is (unsurpisingly) commercial recycling at one of three locations - Hampton Roads, Mobile or Brownsville - with the dismantled reactors also taken to a commercial contractor's site rather than the DOE Hanford facility which takes the reactors from PSNS.
Newport News Shipbuilding has a contract to store the carrier until September 2024. After that it is planned to be towed to its final destination.
The report argues that recyling at the naval shipyard would require investment in barges, lifitng gear and the unloading facilities at the Port of Benton if dual reactor compartment packages were shipped from Puget Sound. This was the shipyard's preferred option apparently because there is only a single bulkhead between the pairs of reactor compartments.
While that is correct it ignores the fact that most of the same investment will be required for the recycled reactors from the Long Beach and future decomissioned Ohio class SSGN/SSBNs because they are too heavy as well for the present equipment.
No mention either of the Nimitz class.
The contract to scrap Enterprise was awarded on 30th May to a consortium named NorthStar Maritime Dismantlement Services (Vernon, VT).
This is a joint venture between Northstar Group and MARS (Modern American Recycling Services). The CVN will be recycled at MARS Deepwater in Mobile, Ala.
That facility is also where the liner United States was towed to prepare it for sinking as an artificicial reef.
This is a joint venture between Northstar Group and MARS (Modern American Recycling Services). The CVN will be recycled at MARS Deepwater in Mobile, Ala.
That facility is also where the liner United States was towed to prepare it for sinking as an artificicial reef.
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I'm sure it will get replaced by something better in short order
tbm3fan
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Given the size of what was available from Westinghouse it was two reactors to replace each boiler. Good idea to since that early phased radar used a lot of electrical energy. Same was true of the Long Beach as she had the same radar as the Enterprise.